 
Mwilbert
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Username: Mwilbert
Post Number: 488
Registered: 11-2007
| | Posted on Friday, January 23, 2009 - 7:04 pm: |    |
By which I mean the restaurant on 8 Mile near Woodward. Has anyone ever been there? What is it like? The location is weird enough that I find it surprising it has any customers, but it has been open forever, so somebody must patronize it. |
Detroitrise
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Username: Detroitrise
Post Number: 3742
Registered: 09-2007
| | Posted on Friday, January 23, 2009 - 7:07 pm: | |
Not to thread-jack, but does Stanley's Other Place have a connection with (former) Stanley's in the New Center Area. |
Claire
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Username: Claire
Post Number: 3
Registered: 01-2009
| | Posted on Friday, January 23, 2009 - 7:11 pm: | |
yes, it relocated there. It has been there for a long time. I would often go to the old one on Milwaukee. I don't think I have ever been to the Other Place. |
Detroitrise
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Username: Detroitrise
Post Number: 3743
Registered: 09-2007
| | Posted on Friday, January 23, 2009 - 7:16 pm: | |
Thanks Claire. 
I suppose that answers Mwilbert's question too. |
Hockey_player
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Username: Hockey_player
Post Number: 290
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Friday, January 23, 2009 - 7:24 pm: | |
They have a bar, but no stools. You can drink only if you order meals. Otherwise, it's just an old-time Chinese place. |
Tony_box_42
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Username: Tony_box_42
Post Number: 200
Registered: 12-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, January 24, 2009 - 12:14 pm: | |
Stanleys original location was Canfield and Hastings.Moved to a new building on Milwaukee.
Opened 8 mi. as there "Upscale" location. |
Cincinnati_kid
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Username: Cincinnati_kid
Post Number: 39
Registered: 07-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, January 25, 2009 - 12:20 am: | |
I hear the food is terrible, thus the sparsly filled parking lot. |
Bearinabox
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Username: Bearinabox
Post Number: 1151
Registered: 04-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, January 25, 2009 - 12:30 am: | |
It's pretty amazing that a place with terrible food has been around since Hastings and Canfield crossed. |
Rooms222
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Username: Rooms222
Post Number: 166
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, January 25, 2009 - 12:32 am: | |
I enjoy the food. It is served hot and seems good. It is traditional 1950s/1960s Chinese food. The dining room stays open late, but not as late as 2-3 years ago, when it did a good business til 3 am on Fri/Sat. They are NOT open for lunch either.
Their Hot and Sour soup for 2 and Dr. Hong's Combination Plate are two of my favorites.......
(Message edited by rooms222 on January 25, 2009) |
Johnberk
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Username: Johnberk
Post Number: 67
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, January 25, 2009 - 1:02 am: | |
I have been there several times, and every time have had good food and good service. |
Vetalalumni
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Username: Vetalalumni
Post Number: 1029
Registered: 05-2007
| | Posted on Sunday, January 25, 2009 - 1:57 pm: | |
Living in Green Acres in the mid 80s, I took dates there a few times. If memory serves me, it was dimly lit and rather quiet. That ambience would be why I'd have taken dates there
(Message edited by vetalalumni on January 25, 2009) |
Foodandwine
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Username: Foodandwine
Post Number: 21
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, February 22, 2009 - 11:35 am: | |
Stanley's is one of the many Detroit classics that gets looked over, until they close and then everyone gets in a uproar about why everything in our city is closing down. Please support our local restaurants and businesses when you can. |
Rooms222
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Username: Rooms222
Post Number: 177
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, February 22, 2009 - 11:55 am: | |
>>>>Living in Green Acres in the mid 80s, I took dates there a few times. If memory serves me, it was dimly lit and rather quiet. That ambience would be why I'd have taken dates there
I first went there on a date as well.
Also, Kelley L. Carter, whom I really liked as a Freep Entertainment reporter put this as one of her favorite things on 8 mile (an article she did when 8 mile came out). She also put the Buddha Lounge, which has mutated since then, but I believe the funds from selling the place turned into Slow's!!
Kelley is now at the LA Times.....
(Message edited by rooms222 on February 22, 2009) |